1 Mar
2005
1 Mar
'05
3:42 p.m.
when you are formatting tracks you have effectively slowed the stepping
rate down to a rate slow enough for the stepper motor to keep up with
(step, time to format, and then step again...). When you are returning to
track 00, the drive is stepping at the fastest rate that the controller is
configured for.
best regards, Steve
At 06:18 PM 03/01/2005, you wrote:
So what I'm wondering is why it works fine when
it's stepping towards the
center of the disk but not when it's stepping back out.
As I mentioned previously, the format command actually works: it steps 77
tracks inward, but can't move back to track 0 to write the boot sector and
directory.
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